Thursday, March 29, 2012

Un-Godly liars

by digby

I suspect that most of the smart Jesuits I've known in my life would weep to hear this drivel:

Timothy Cardinal Dolan of New York took his case against the Affordable Care Act’s new rule requiring insurers and employers to provide preventive care services — including contraception — at no additional cost to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. The Catholic Church is fighting the requirement against the tide of public opinion and despite being specifically exempt from providing birth control to its members.

Dolan pulled no punches, however, going so far as to imply that the requirement would undermine the “American enterprise” and spread “secularism” throughout the nation:

DOLAN: You’re a better historian than I am Bill, you know that every great movement in — in American history has been driven by people of religious conviction. And if we duct tape the churches — I’m just not talking about the Catholic Church — if we duct tape the role of religion and the churches and morally convince people in the marketplace that’s going to lead to a huge deficit a huge void.

And there are many people who want to fill it up, namely a new religion called secularism, ok, which — which would be as doctrinaire and would consider itself as infallible as they caricature the other religions doing.

So to — to see — to see that morally-driven religiously-convinced people want to exercise their political responsibility, I think that is not only at the heart of biblical religion, it is at the heart of American enterprise.

That's going to come as a hell of a surprise to the founders of this country. It's utter wingnut bullshit from beginning to end.

Is there any longer a single doubt that this group of Catholic bishops have joined the Republican Party's political storm troops? They obviously want to finally put an end to the Enlightenment, through lies, manipulation and propaganda. What an un-Godly bunch of crooks and creeps.